Graduation

I graduated from high school last Friday, and had the great privilege of presenting one of my poems as part of the ceremony. The theme verse for the graduation was Nehemiah 6:9, which reads: “For they all wanted to frighten us, thinking, ‘Their hands will drop from the work, and it will not be done.’ But now, O God, strengthen my hands” (ESV).

My poem focuses around that theme. In it I take a look at the fears that surround any big step in life, as well as the confidence we can have in the Lord as we step up to face those fears. 

Check it out on YouTube at the link below! 

Jewell’s Graduation Poem

Thanks! 

Jewell 

The Prints of the Past

One rock, two rock, three rock, four 

Fossils, bones, footprints and more.

Sights of the past never to be seen, unimaginable things you’d never believe.

Sealed in time with bone and brush, are the memories we’ve made and those yet untouched.

We can look in the past to the prints we’ve made, see where our paths come together, and from whence they’ve strayed.

Side by side our steps can be found, walking only one way, where the true victory is found.

What will never be sealed by time and rock, are the feelings we’ve felt and the sweet things we thought. 

For they dwell on us like a book of words, they instruct us daily, through them we are assured.

Anyone can look at the last to see marks, but it is our future that is remarkable and we’re just at the start. No matter the backstory, exposition or plot, our stories converge and resolve at the cross. 

*The above poem was written by my very dear friend. I wrote a response poem which he is posting on his amazing blog, z774j.wordpress.com. Go check his poems out!*